Biography Vic Carless

Following is the obituary of the artist published in the The Telegraph, London, September 4, 2011.

Vic Carless, who has died aged 83, was one of Britain's foremost artists of planes, trains and automobiles.

He was best known, however, as a marine artist, and produced paintings of some of the world's most lavish, some would say gaudy, superyachts, for owners such as the Sultan of Brunei, Donald Trump, Adnan Khashoggi or Steven Spielberg.

A keen sailor himself, though at a more modest level with the South Staffs Sailing Club, Carless was introduced to the rarefied world of the superyacht by the noted Australian yacht designer Jon Bannenberg.

He commissioned Carless to produce sketches from the earliest stage
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